Real dairy or plant-based milks?
Growing up every kid and many adults enjoyed a glass of real dairy milk at every meal. Then plant-based milks started to come on the market and many people switched to these milks thinking they were healthier. Are they? Teaching nutrition I often talked about the nutritional differences of real milk versus the fake plant-based milks. Some students asked what “real milk” was. Real milk is dairy – milk from a cow. Plant-based milks can be made from almonds, oats, or soy. Which is healthier? Real dairy milk or plant-based milks? Which milk does the United States Department of Agriculture count as a serving of milk? Consumer Reports has a great article Which Milk Should You Drink? that answers many of these questions. Should you drink cow’s milk? Good news for nutritionists is that 79% of 2,121 US adults polled are still buying cow’s milk. Unfortunately, people are drinking less re...